Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1912 — ALL LOYAL MEN, AND GOOD [ARTICLE]

ALL LOYAL MEN, AND GOOD

Railroad Employes Put the Serviep' First, as Authentic Records Abundantly Can Prove. work is as a religion. No matter if It is cleaning an engine “It will be a -pleasant memory to look back to know that you made something better.” . . “Only do as you’re told and do it the best ! you know how, and no kicking.” “A traveling auditor once said to me, ‘I never heard you complain; why is it?’ 1 promptly told him I was getting ail I earned and I had no complaints to make. I gave my best in service and am now reaping the reward Philosophy walks in the language of a train dispatcher: "What improves the character of work, as wel} as of the man who performs it, is pride in the same.” This one is more explicit. His spirit is the same. “It perhaps does not appear to. the layman, or he who is unfamiliar with the internal economy of the motive power department of a great railroad, what it means to keep the wheels round; what skill and care, brawn and brains are needed to produce and keep on schedule time any one of the magnificent solid vest!b ule-passenger trains.” And again, "There may be as much (if any) glory that anyone could notice* at least, in a man being able to keep engines in good working order with the help of a bunch of green though ever so willing hands; but any railroad man knows that it means something ihoiWThah courage, which most every red-blooded man has anyway. No, it requires just plain, common downright grit.” Dennis Hennessy had felt the same pride when "myself and Steven Regan pumped water in the water house, piled wood in the wood house and unloaded lumber out of the cars.” When the time came Hennessy worked the Sterling bridge of which he says: “Those piers will never give out. We had made a noble job of those piers.” His farewell is: “I never drank a quart of whisky in my lifetime, so I am living yet in good health, thank God.” It was the study of this man that his boss never had a chance to boss him. “I would never wait until the foreman would call me to go and fix this, but with one jump I would be at it, and I could hear the general superintendent come up and say to some of the other ofr fleers who were with him, ‘Oh, it is all right. George is there.’ Well, that would make me feel good. That sounded just as if I was working for a father who had confidence in my work.” —Exchange.